After a well deserved Oscar for The Fighter, Christian Bale has stumped us twice with the industry’s love for him. He blazed past Tom Hanks in 2013 to clinche a (well-deserved in my opinion) nomination for American Hustle, and this morning he came up strong by edging out four of the favourites to clinche a nomination for The Big Short.

I personally believe that Hollywood is trying to compensate for the fact that Bale went so long without a nomination (snubs for American Psycho and The Machinist), so they’re trying to pad his resume with more nominations that he should have gotten long ago.

He’s one of the finest actors working today and deserves every bit of recognition he gets. I agree that he has had undeserved snubs in the past, but now he’s become a favourite, I hope there is many more nods from the Academy to come.

Its not so much that he was considered to have been snubbed at the time (though his performance in Psycho is miles better than Russell Crowe in Gladiator), its more that they seem to be trying to pad his resume to get more nominations up